Tag Archives: Channel 4
Take a Peep at this: public garden planned for Zodiac Court
Zodiac Court, fabled as the home of Jez and Mark in Channel 4’s cult comedy Peep Show, is to get a complete makeover, including the addition of a community garden and café in a space which for half a century … Continue reading
Love it or List it is coming to Croydon and want you to take part
Have you yearned to have Phil Spencer poking around your garden shed or Kirstie Allsopp knocking down your dividing wall? Well now’s your chance, because the Channel4 property programme Love it or List it is casting for its next series, … Continue reading
Channel 4’s schools competition offers insight to broadcasting
Channel 4 is challenging secondary school pupils from across the country to conjure up ideas for a new television show as part of a nationwide competition. Pupils are being invited to create a new show which explores how we are … Continue reading
Mortgage, Mortgage, Mortgage: house-buying in 2017
Our housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES, on the return to Croydon of a weekly piece of property porn The Channel 4 property show Location, Location, Location this week comes to Croydon and, in its 23rd series, delivers an episode which sums … Continue reading
Portas Pilot one year on: more shops have closed in Croydon
The state of Surrey Street and Church Street markets in Croydon are worse now than 12 months ago, when the area was awarded a £100,000 grant by the local government department as part of the Portas Pilot scheme, according to … Continue reading
Exploitation TV coming to a coffee shop near you
It’s always good to watch out when the national media comes to Croydon. Laden with preconceptions and unfortunate stereotypes, their tone is normally unhelpful about Croydon’s difficulties. Another exploitative effort comes from Channel 4 on Tuesday night, when the second … Continue reading
Send ’em back! Councillor’s rant against traveller groups
Sexism, rants against the local press for failing to be sufficiently subservient, and racism – last night’s full meeting of the council at the Town Hall had it all. It was as if, for Croydon’s ruling Conservative group, the 1930s … Continue reading
All down the pub for drinks on the meat-eating veggie
Seems we were verging into the realm of prophesy last night when, after the penultimate episode of this week’s Channel 4 Come Dine With Me from Croydon, we wrote: “Now if Preston manages to outdo that on Friday, that will … Continue reading
Snakes alive: cookery show discovers hidden talents
Well that was a surprise. The trouble with formulaic TV shows is that, well, they conform to a formula, and rarely depart much from their tried and trusted recipe – unlike the contestants on reality cookery shows. And it has … Continue reading
